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1 2005-08-23.txt:18:16:04: <nooga> i've got nVidia gf4 MX 440 in my PC ;p
2 2005-08-23.txt:18:25:39: <GregorR-W> I've got an Nvidia GeForce 2.
3 2006-04-26.txt:07:39:18: <nooga> nvidia drivers made something bad with the console
4 2006-08-23.txt:01:42:58: * pikhq is temporarily enslaved by nonfree software. . . Curse you, Nvidia!
5 2008-01-30.txt:20:08:50: <AnMaster> Insane, apart from nvidia binary driver and bios I run 100% open source on my computer
6 2008-03-11.txt:21:19:17: <AnMaster> os[Linux 2.6.24-gentoo-r2 x86_64] distro[Gentoo Linux (stable)] cpu[1 x AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3300+ (AuthenticAMD) @ 2.00GHz] mem[Physical : 1.5GB, 46.7% free] disk[Total : 92.82GB, 29.40% Free] video[nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GS]] sound[EMU10K1 - SB Live 5.1]
7 2008-05-01.txt:16:48:44: <pikhq> Nvidia driver and Flash plugin.
8 2008-05-26.txt:06:39:02: <Slereah> Would you have any sort of idea as of why, with my reinstallation of windows and the NVIDIA pilot, I'm currently in 16 colors, without the possibility to go higher
9 2008-06-03.txt:21:01:56: <tusho> I could probably get a cheap 256mb one that is actually, you know, made by nvidia or someone.
10 2008-06-20.txt:17:16:32: <AnMaster> both got nvidia geforce 7600 cards
11 2008-08-16.txt:12:31:30: * AnMaster turns it on and goes to fiddle with nvidia-settings
12 2008-10-14.txt:22:47:10: <fizzie> The GPU programming languages (like Nvidia's Cg) seem a bit esoteric already, the little that I've seen of them.
13 2008-11-12.txt:21:55:44: <ehird_> I think it's nvidia.
14 2008-12-25.txt:22:29:41: <Sgeo> nVidia RIVA TNT2
15 2009-01-09.txt:19:49:19: <fizzie> Oh well; I have to use the horrible nvidia binary blob driver too, since the second monitor I have is pivotable but the open-source 'nv' driver disables all (2D too) acceleration if I want a rotated image.
16 2009-01-09.txt:19:51:50: <fizzie> Oh, the nvidia driver also has a horrible installation script which touches all kinds of places. I just use the Debian-packaged version, I'm not so interested in having the newest released ones.
17 2009-02-21.txt:21:57:46: <AnMaster> nvidia-drivers sometimes had issues with last kernel, however often easy to fix by selecting another version
18 2009-02-21.txt:21:57:57: <AnMaster> gentoo tends to make many versions available of nvidia-drivers
19 2009-02-21.txt:21:58:07: <AnMaster> [I] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
20 2009-02-21.txt:21:58:37: <AnMaster> changed to nvidia
21 2009-02-21.txt:21:58:40: <ehird> AnMaster: when I bought this mac you could only get nvidia with a mac pro, and it was more expensive
22 2009-02-21.txt:21:59:32: <AnMaster> sure so does nvidia, but they are at least less shitty
23 2009-03-29.txt:21:33:53: <AnMaster> SimonRC, more if X is started because nvidia driver sucks
24 2009-03-30.txt:23:24:04: <fizzie> No; I have nvidia-glx, nvidia-glx-dev and four nvidia-kernel-* packages in the vrms list.
25 2009-03-31.txt:16:54:16: <ehird> NVIDIA GeForce Go 9200M GS (Dedicated Graphics)
26 2009-03-31.txt:16:55:55: <AnMaster> ehird, anyway nvidia drivers usually work almost out of box once they are compiled and installed. And Intel like Linux and contributed bug fixes to the open source drivers
27 2009-03-31.txt:16:57:58: <AnMaster> ehird, still nvidia-drivers tend to just work, issue is when they stop supporting some old card in new drivers and the last working driver ends up failing with newer kernels.
28 2009-03-31.txt:16:58:14: <ehird> Yeah but even with nvidia I have to let ubuntu asy "oh hai you need these drivers"
29 2009-04-03.txt:00:12:42: <AnMaster> ehird, well... I'd go nvidia or intel
30 2009-04-03.txt:17:44:40: <AnMaster> ehird, I was thinking more about 3D games. For example Flightgear is so opengl heavy it has caused bugs to show up in certain nvidia driver versions too, some developer called it an opengl testsuite as a joke iirc
31 2009-04-03.txt:17:47:21: <ehird> GPU - NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS/640 or similar
32 2009-04-03.txt:17:48:36: <ehird> ** Supported chipsets: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT or greater; ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (Radeon X800 Pro for Vista) or greater. Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported. Integrated chipsets are not supported. Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required.
33 2009-04-08.txt:19:55:58: <fizzie> Last I looked (admittedly I guess it's been over a year?) ATI's fglrx driver felt equally crummy to Nvidia's (at least as far as using it is concerned, I don't know about technical details), and the radeonhd driver was pretty alpha-quality.
34 2009-04-08.txt:19:56:32: <AnMaster> fizzie, nvidia drivers just worked, while I got freezes and such with ati.
35 2009-04-08.txt:20:35:11: <AnMaster> so I'm stuck with nvidia driver
36 2009-04-08.txt:22:04:47: <AnMaster> nvidia geforce 7600. low end yes
37 2009-04-16.txt:20:13:27: <fizzie> Heh, my two pageups go approximately 8 minutes now; I updated some drivers (more-or-less-beta-maybe-I-guess-or-should-it-be-stable proprietary nvidia 180.44, xorg 7.4, 2.6.29.1 kernel) and now (a) cursor droppings are left on the other screen when I move the cursor from one screen to the other, and (b) X crashes after approximately 5 minutes. That's very suboptimal.
38 2009-04-16.txt:20:14:15: <fizzie> This is the 80x25 text console, since I had some problems with the nvidiafb framebuffer console, too.
39 2009-04-16.txt:20:22:45: <AnMaster> fizzie, never had such issues with nvidia drivers. Other issues sometimes but not those.
40 2009-04-16.txt:20:23:43: <fizzie> Actually I don't think it (well, except the cursor thing maybe) is related to the nvidia drivers.
41 2009-04-16.txt:20:26:45: <AnMaster> on gentoo it would be emerge =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.29 or such to force a specific version of those available
42 2009-04-16.txt:20:27:26: <fizzie> Really, I'm not that sure it's nvidia-driver-related.
43 2009-04-16.txt:21:07:35: <Deewiant> +With -nvidia, when using Xinerama, holding down a key in a text field
44 2009-04-16.txt:21:08:13: <fizzie> Yes, it sounds a bit nvidia-related after all. (Though not sure what the - there in "-nvidia" means in this case.)
45 2009-04-16.txt:21:08:24: <Deewiant> 1) Only on nVidia. 2) Only with Xinerama. 3) Holding down a key. 4) Only in a text field. 5) Only on a non-primary screen.
46 2009-04-16.txt:21:09:42: <fizzie> I had some really good reason for using Xinerama instead of nvidia's own TwinView trickery.
47 2009-04-21.txt:22:50:41: <ehird> I wonder what recent nvidia cards are like.
48 2009-04-25.txt:19:15:55: <ehird> "As of 2008-12, many issues still remain: Video playback occasionally has quality and stability problems, especially in Xine[7]. 2D benchmarks show that ATI cards using these drivers are two orders of magnitude slower than the competing NVIDIA cards in basic tasks such as text rendering[8], making even graphic consoles feel sluggish."
49 2009-04-25.txt:19:46:45: <ehird> It's *almost* enough to make me go nvidia.
50 2009-04-25.txt:19:48:14: <ehird> Fanless nvidia, that is
51 2009-04-25.txt:19:49:18: <ehird> But... "As of 2008-12, many issues still remain: Video playback occasionally has quality and stability problems, especially in Xine[7]. 2D benchmarks show that ATI cards using these drivers are two orders of magnitude slower than the competing NVIDIA cards in basic tasks such as text rendering[8], making even graphic consoles feel sluggish."
52 2009-04-29.txt:14:27:59: <AnMaster> it seems like Xid with the value of 13 there is nvidia related memory fault/invalid instruction/similar.
53 2009-05-01.txt:19:43:02: <AnMaster> strings -a /usr/lib/opengl/nvidia/*/*.so | grep -F 'GCC: (GNU)' | sort -n | uniq is interesting
54 2009-05-02.txt:20:39:37: <AnMaster> a lot more for /lib/modules/2.6.27-gentoo-r8-1, since it contains the nvidia module too
55 2009-05-03.txt:21:58:24: <ehird> bsmntbombdood: so, cheapest modern nvidia card I can find then
56 2009-05-03.txt:22:16:49: <bsmntbombdood> i can't remember if it's ATI or Nvidia that has bad linux support
57 2009-05-03.txt:22:17:46: <ehird> but right, i'll repick a nvidia
58 2009-05-03.txt:22:17:51: <ehird> i just don't know anything about nvidias :-)
59 2009-05-03.txt:22:18:44: <ehird> do YOU know anything about nvidias?
60 2009-05-03.txt:22:21:35: <ehird> bsmntbombdood: you might need a proprietary nvidia driver for that card
61 2009-05-03.txt:22:22:21: <Deewiant> What's the status of the non-proprietary linux nvidia drivers
62 2009-05-03.txt:22:22:40: <bsmntbombdood> what's the status of non-linux nvidia drivers
63 2009-05-04.txt:00:03:28: <AnMaster> nvidia-settings
64 2009-05-06.txt:16:58:34: <ehird> Deewiant: know anything about nvidia cards? I'm trying to work out what the rough ATI equivalent of a GeForce 9800 GT is.
65 2009-05-13.txt:17:50:53: <ehird> I wonder why people use Intel/Nvidia and AMD/ATI and rarely other combinations (even before AMD bought ATI)
66 2009-05-13.txt:17:51:26: <pikhq> That's really weird, especially since for a while Nvidia made very good AMD chipsets.
67 2009-05-13.txt:17:52:15: <ehird> Terrible theory: AMD seem to use more black and dark blue and red and other dark-sort-of-feeling colours in their marketing, and so does ATI. Intel is white and blue, Nvidia is light green. Perfect fits.
68 2009-05-13.txt:17:55:54: <ehird> http://www.nvidia.com/object/GeForce_3D_Vision_Main.html ← 1. Sell 3D glasses for a load of money 2. Claim it's revolutionary 3. Profit
69 2009-05-13.txt:20:41:03: <ehird> tl;dr summary: Core i7 940 @ 2.9ghz... 12GB DDR3 RAM... ancient nvidia card... Intel X25-M 80gb ssd... 1TB storage drive
70 2009-05-13.txt:20:45:11: <ehird> Asztal: it's a really shitty passive nvidia :)
71 2009-05-15.txt:16:06:13: <ehird> and make sure you have the proper nvidia drivers
72 2009-05-15.txt:17:02:12: <ehird> AnMaster: Larrabee's early presentation has drawn some criticism from GPU competitors. At NVISION 08, several NVIDIA employees called Intel's SIGGRAPH paper about Larrabee "marketing puff" and told the press that the Larrabee architecture was "like a GPU from 2006".[7]
73 2009-05-15.txt:17:02:20: <ehird> ofc, nvidia has a reason to be biased
74 2009-05-15.txt:17:03:32: <AnMaster> well so are recent nvidia and ati cards iirc
75 2009-05-15.txt:17:03:45: <AnMaster> nvidia's cuda and whatever ati's one was called
76 2009-05-17.txt:19:44:56: <fizzie> You can sort-of blame Nvidia for not releasing the hardware specs like ATI/AMD did.
77 2009-05-17.txt:19:46:11: <fizzie> That's probably the other reason people haven't been reverse-engineering nvidia stuff more.
78 2009-05-17.txt:19:47:30: <ehird> fizzie: really old passive Nvidia from sparkl
79 2009-05-17.txt:19:51:20: <fizzie> The nvidia binary driver also added that VDPAU thing recently; it was long so that it supported only a bit of xvmc, and only for geforce series <=7. (The readme says G96, which is in 9400, does IDCT+motion-compensation on the card for MPEG1/2, H.264 and VC1 (WMV), and bitstream decoding only for h.264; G98 would do also the bitstream decoding part on the card for mpeg1/2 and wmv.
80 2009-05-17.txt:19:52:19: <bsmntbombdood> ehird: maybe i should get an nvidia tesla though
81 2009-05-17.txt:19:58:26: <fizzie> My passive gf7600gt card, with it's crummy G73 gpu and no VDPAU support in the nvidia drivers, can't do 1080p video in this rather-less-than-high-end system. :/ (Admittedly I don't think I have any 1080p media either.)
82 2009-05-18.txt:23:22:22: <ehird> I wonder if a nvidia card would work with a replaced cooler
83 2009-05-18.txt:23:35:23: <ehird> i'm just happy since i was a bit sad about the 9800GT being the best nvidia passively-cooled-when-bought card you could get
84 2009-05-18.txt:23:47:37: <AnMaster> ehird, I always set 2x AA in nvidia-settings
85 2009-05-19.txt:18:04:18: <Deewiant> Based on a quick browse of nvidia.com, anyway
86 2009-05-19.txt:18:06:04: <Deewiant> Both ATI and nVidia have a 9600 GT, at least
87 2009-05-19.txt:18:06:20: <Deewiant> nVidia's is fairly new
88 2009-05-20.txt:00:03:10: <AnMaster> rather to an array of Nvidia Tesla
89 2009-05-20.txt:18:41:39: <AnMaster> ais523, usually nvidia or vmware drivers. Once buggy USB in kernel (around 2.6.8 or so)
90 2009-05-20.txt:20:11:42: <ehird> bsmntbombdood: but my radeon absolutely cannot, being that CUDA is a nvidia technology :)
91 2009-05-20.txt:20:13:48: <ehird> "OpenCL was initially developed by Apple Inc., which holds trademark rights, and refined into an initial proposal in collaboration with technical teams at AMD, Intel and Nvidia."
92 2009-05-20.txt:20:13:49: <ehird> "NVIDIA announced on December 9, 2008 to add full support for the OpenCL 1.0 specification to its GPU Computing Toolkit.[8]"
93 2009-05-20.txt:20:15:12: <bsmntbombdood> get an nvidia tesla
94 2009-05-31.txt:00:05:39: <ehird> [[NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512MB
95 2009-05-31.txt:00:05:39: <ehird> 2x NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512MB [Add $150.00]
96 2009-05-31.txt:00:05:40: <ehird> 3x NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512MB [Add $300.00]
97 2009-05-31.txt:00:05:42: <ehird> 4x NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512MB [Add $450.00]
98 2009-05-31.txt:00:09:56: <ehird> pikhq: Alternatively, you can have a gaming card. Never mind, say, a Nvidia Quadro or Tesla.
99 2009-05-31.txt:19:59:50: <ehird> bsmntbombdood: it is probably more effective to use two of the best single nvidia gpus
100 2009-05-31.txt:22:33:26: <bsmntbombdood> also, nvidia says the 295 takes 289 watts
101 2009-05-31.txt:23:44:10: <AnMaster> ehird, is that nvidia or ati?
102 2009-05-31.txt:23:44:14: <ehird> nvidia
103 2009-06-01.txt:01:22:58: <ehird> bsmntbombdood: user anecdote says that it can cool a core 2 quad @ 2.66 plus two nvidia 8600GTSes at load below 27C
104 2009-06-01.txt:01:30:54: <ehird> "Struggles to work with the newer 2 x nVidia 8800 as they just got too hot over 61 degrees celsius out of game reset in game RED HOT no overclock uses as the cards would have gone into meltdown! "
105 2009-06-01.txt:16:59:28: <ehird> "Or is this an eternal, undecidable holy-war question along the lines of ATI/nVidia, AMD/Intel, Coke/Pepsi"
106 2009-06-02.txt:11:20:09: <AnMaster> GregorR-L, but with the nvidia card, and at native res, vga works just fine
107 2009-06-05.txt:22:09:18: <AnMaster> ehird, correct. It was "nvidia TwinView"
108 2009-06-05.txt:22:10:44: <AnMaster> ehird, and as I said, nvidia twin-view setup
109 2009-06-24.txt:18:35:55: <AnMaster> ehird, graphics stuff: nvidia preferred currently, but I guess anything that can do basic 3D would work...
110 2009-06-25.txt:19:14:48: <ehird> pikhq: probably not; nvidia/ati drivers are a huge untertaking
111 2009-06-26.txt:21:21:51: <ehird> http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/06/nvidia_tegra_powers_sexy_new_netbooks_provides_days_of_battery_life.html
112 2009-07-17.txt:19:30:47: <AnMaster> pikhq, how long before binary nvidia drivers start doing that?
113 2009-07-28.txt:01:04:23: * Sgeo is using his laptop at his desk. His desktop is Pentium III, 512MB nVidia RIVA TNT2
114 2009-08-03.txt:13:27:08: <ehird> get a nvidia card
115 2009-08-03.txt:13:31:43: * Sgeo has a nvidia card. It sucks
116 2009-08-14.txt:21:57:23: <AnMaster> ehird_, if an app suddenly ended up linked to libgl-nvidia.so instead of libgl-mesa.so thing would go very strange indeed
117 2009-08-14.txt:22:43:11: <ehird> 13:57:23 <AnMaster> ehird_, if an app suddenly ended up linked to libgl-nvidia.so instead of libgl-mesa.so thing would go very strange indeed
118 2009-08-16.txt:12:58:04: <fizzie> Installing nvidia-glx-ia32 made it work, though.
119 2009-08-17.txt:21:51:41: <fizzie> Well, everything looks smaller on this screen; I'm not sure this setup is doing per-screen DPI correctly, since it's that nvidia's "merged as a single framebuffer" thing.
120 2009-08-18.txt:22:15:50: <fizzie> Anyway, I had of course forgotten the simple solution, which was just to swap some cables around and use the static "Rotate" "left" option of the nvidia driver to control that rotated screen. Which I guess is all well and good, since turns out the radeon driver didn't 2d-accelerate rotated modes.
121 2009-08-19.txt:19:07:38: <ehird> Wow, it comes with a Nvidia Quadro.
122 2009-08-20.txt:19:38:49: <ehird> well and nvidia too
123 2009-08-21.txt:21:40:33: <AnMaster> ehird_, possibly, intel graphics use quite a lot less power than ati or nvidia chipsets
124 2009-08-21.txt:21:40:52: <ehird_> AnMaster: Not nvidia integrated GPUs.
125 2009-08-21.txt:21:41:42: <ehird_> Well, the nvidia embedded gpus are good nowadays.
126 2009-09-07.txt:21:23:49: <fizzie> Oh, and dmesg prints out "Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -152506783 ns)" immediately after loading the nvidia binary blob; might be related.
127 2009-09-13.txt:21:40:23: <AnMaster> ehird, at least not for nvidia libGL. I can say that much
128 2009-09-13.txt:21:58:38: <AnMaster> generic open source one, and nvidia one
129 2009-09-13.txt:22:00:35: <AnMaster> Ilari, my point was that nvidia one is a binary blob
130 2009-09-20.txt:11:49:58: <AnMaster> that is old enough for ATI or nvidia to drop support yeah
131 2009-09-20.txt:13:04:42: <AnMaster> ehird, as it happens I use none of those on my desktop (on the other hand, it has nvidia driver so meh), for my laptop I need the tg3 and iwlagn drivers, iwlagn at least loads some firmware from /lib/fimware
132 2009-09-20.txt:15:02:24: <AnMaster> same for kwin on nvidia drivers. But that is expected
133 2009-09-22.txt:01:49:24: <ehird> Forget video card, NIC and FDD: get a motherboard with those integrated (Nvidia for the graphics, due to having the best Linux performance and good performance in general) and who uses floppy (although it's a $5 affair)
134 2009-09-22.txt:01:54:08: <ehird> Mobo is pretty constrained, though, as there aren't all that many desktop mobos with Nvidia graphics.
135 2009-09-22.txt:01:57:01: <ehird> nvidia drivers for linux are the second most stable to intel, but the Intel drivers are really, really, really bad
136 2009-09-22.txt:02:01:05: <ehird> Ilari: The proprietary Nvidia drivers are pretty much rock-solid, being used by a huge portion of Linux users.
137 2009-09-23.txt:14:39:01: <ehird> The Nvidia Tesla S870 is 2074 GFLOPS.
138 2009-09-23.txt:14:41:43: <AnMaster> and why are we still going along this design, wouldn't rethinking it and going along similar lines that those raytracers in FPGAs did be better. With the budget of nvidia on that rather than the (relative to nvidia) small research budget...
139 2009-10-09.txt:19:37:27: <AnMaster> might be due to nvidia drivers
140 2009-10-13.txt:20:04:41: <ehird> GPU giant NVIDIA has confirmed that the company is putting the brakes on the Nforce chipset line because of legal wranglings with Intel.
141 2009-10-13.txt:20:05:12: <AnMaster> <ehird> GPU giant NVIDIA has confirmed that the company is putting the brakes on the Nforce chipset line because of legal wranglings with Intel.
142 2009-10-27.txt:22:10:06: <AnMaster> fizzie, for me it works by just doing /usr/bin/nvidia-settings and enabling twin-view
143 2009-10-27.txt:22:12:05: <fizzie> My nvidia dualhead setup looks like http://zem.fi/~fis/x.txt -- though with Ion, I guess you don't want Xinerama on. And those are numbered "0" and "2" because there's the third monitor too.
144 2009-10-27.txt:22:17:28: <fizzie> Since I'm not sure whether you saw it or not; here's one nvidia-card dualhead-without-twinview xorg.conf: http://zem.fi/~fis/x.txt
145 2009-10-27.txt:22:24:25: <fizzie> Twinview's just a nvidia-specific hack to make two physical monitors appear as a single "physical" X screen; that's what gives you the split menus and other ugly things like that. It has a "fake-Xinerama" thing which makes it provide the Xinerama information so that window managers know the physical screen boundaries.
146 2009-10-27.txt:23:56:06: <fizzie> (And anyway nvidia's binary driver isn't very XRandR-friendly; it supports some basics of it, but not as well as the open-source radeon driver, whose "twinview"-lookalike is configured via XRandR, unless I remember wrongly.)
147 2009-10-28.txt:03:38:59: <ehird> nvidia have better proprietary drivers, but ATI support the OSS drivers more
148 2009-10-28.txt:20:38:24: <AnMaster> pikhq, but yeah the last X update was flawless for me. Just needed to rebuild nvidia module (forgot about that first time around)
149 2009-10-31.txt:20:58:15: <ehird> kernel-nvidia, kernel-radeonhd, etc.
150 2009-11-01.txt:20:09:04: <oerjan> 2008.0->10.0 | irefox/ nvidia-drivers/ glibc/ nptl downgrade? sync and retry
151 2009-11-04.txt:14:09:35: <fizzie> As far as non-security-related things go, there must be something in the eyeball-bugs saying, since at least my vague feeling is that bug density is higher in all kinds of closed-source blobs. (Skype and nvidia's binary drivers come to mind.)
152 2009-11-10.txt:21:55:22: <{}_> "The GeForce 200 Series is the tenth generation of NVIDIA's GeForce graphics processing units. The series also represents the continuation of the company's unified shader architecture introduced with the GeForce 8 Series and the GeForce 9 Series."
153 2009-11-10.txt:22:38:21: <fizzie> For example http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gt_120_us.html "OEM Product", "Not available for individual purchase".
154 2009-11-24.txt:20:29:57: <AnMaster> fizzie, you mean like nvidia drivers?
155 2009-12-06.txt:12:31:56: <ehird> Nowadays, they're competitive with nvidia's proprietary drivers, which are nice.
156 2009-12-12.txt:14:10:53: <AnMaster> NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (Permission denied).
157 2010-01-03.txt:22:14:12: <AnMaster> coppro, well there is one limit: nvidia drivers
158 2010-01-03.txt:22:15:22: <AnMaster> can't see anything about nvidia there
159 2010-01-03.txt:22:16:24: <AnMaster> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GS] (rev a2)
160 2010-01-03.txt:22:18:55: <AnMaster> coppro, probably it might be useful around the time nvidia drops driver support for my card
161 2010-01-03.txt:22:41:45: <anmaster_l> here we go *compiles nvidia for custom kernel*
162 2010-01-10.txt:16:35:13: <ais523> ehird: I had a very similar problem ages ago, trying to install NVidia graphics drivers on Linux
163 2010-01-10.txt:16:46:25: <AnMaster> ais523, well, to begin with I'm pretty sure the nvidia module is called "nvidia". Not sure what else would be called that
164 2010-01-10.txt:16:46:36: <ais523> another nvidia module, I assume
165 2010-01-12.txt:19:59:05: <AnMaster> ehird, and there is the issue of the nvidia geforce 7600 card. Anyway I guess I will have to get a new (quieter) desktop soon
166 2010-01-28.txt:18:49:48: <AnMaster> I can't use dvi on my nvidia card it seems. Why? Because it causes X to lock up whenever DPMS kicks in
167 2010-01-28.txt:18:51:00: <AnMaster> also sshing in and killing X results in screwed up video mode. Reloading the nvidia kernel module after that causes it to claim that the nvidia card is unsupported (until reboot)
168 2010-01-28.txt:18:53:34: <AnMaster> also nvidia module was spewing things to Xorg.log
169 2010-01-29.txt:15:59:02: <AnMaster> atm I'm testing older nvidia driver
170 2010-01-29.txt:16:01:29: <AnMaster> Ilari, also I had to reboot to fix it last time. It was so bad that the nvidia card changed to "unknown device" in lspci
171 2010-01-29.txt:16:01:41: <AnMaster> and dmesg contained lots of those infamous nvidia Xid messages
172 2010-01-29.txt:21:35:50: <fizzie> My nvidia card (which, admittedly, has just two DVI connectors) sends the VGA text console to both outputs; I don't quite remember what the framebuffer console did.
173 2010-01-29.txt:21:38:06: <AnMaster> fizzie, ever noticed that option "digital vibrance" in nvidia-settings? What the heck is the point of it?
174 2010-01-29.txt:21:38:50: <fizzie> I assume it does some made-to-look-more-colorful-to-a-layperson colorspace mangling. I don't remember when I last looked at nvidia-settings, though.
175 2010-01-29.txt:21:40:44: <fizzie> (That was from the http://www.nvidia.com/object/feature_dvc.html hype-page.)
176 2010-02-21.txt:11:22:02: <AnMaster> err s/it/nvidia drivers/
177 2010-04-09.txt:21:42:32: <AnMaster> Deewiant, ah, nvidia drivers splits it
178 2010-05-22.txt:20:53:48: <alise> Do you have a nvidia card?
179 2010-05-22.txt:20:54:17: <pikhq> Because my onboard video card is ATi, and I'm too lazy to get an Nvidia card.
180 2010-05-22.txt:20:54:49: <pikhq> I've used Nvidia in the past.
181 2010-05-22.txt:20:56:07: <alise> I'm using the "current" nvidia drivers, but I can switch to versions 96 and 173.
182 2010-05-22.txt:20:58:17: <pikhq> I have never ever ever seen that behavior with official Nvidia drivers.
183 2010-05-22.txt:20:58:40: <AnMaster> and my desktop is nvidia
184 2010-05-22.txt:20:58:49: <alise> This is a shitty onboard nvidia card btw.
185 2010-05-22.txt:20:59:01: <pikhq> Nvidia's drivers for Linux are very well-tested. Same drivers used for Windows, in fact.
186 2010-05-23.txt:18:59:26: <comex> even Linux has that nvidia H264 acceleration thingy
187 2010-05-26.txt:09:11:27: <AnMaster> for example: nvidia drivers mmap stuffs iirc
188 2010-05-26.txt:09:18:51: <AnMaster> have you ever tried a non-xinerama build of firefox on a dual head X server (using nvidia twinview, not multiple screens)?
189 2010-06-06.txt:15:08:57: <alise> AS I NEED NVIDIA
190 2010-06-06.txt:15:09:02: <alise> SURELY YOU CAN COMPILE NVIDIA IN
191 2010-06-06.txt:15:37:45: <alise> aur/nvidia-ck 195.36.15-2 (35)
192 2010-06-06.txt:15:37:45: <alise> NVIDIA drivers for kernel26-ck.
193 2010-06-06.txt:16:06:04: <alise> 23.2% ( 61.7) <interrupt> : sata_nv, nvidia
194 2010-06-06.txt:16:07:22: <alise> nvidia sure likes waking up
195 2010-06-06.txt:17:45:03: <alise> I want to disable module support. I also want to use the binary nvidia module.
196 2010-06-06.txt:17:45:40: <AnMaster> Deewiant, I think he want to build the 9 MB nvidia.ko into the kernel
197 2010-06-06.txt:17:46:31: <AnMaster> alise, the nvidia module is larger than the rest of my kernel + all my external modules (I have a few, stuff I use very rarely mostly)
198 2010-06-06.txt:17:46:57: <alise> So adding nvidia to them will just make them a size of your regular bloated Ubuntu kernel.
199 2010-06-06.txt:18:06:49: <alise> The kernel refused to load the nvidia driver for some reason; said there was no such device.
200 2010-06-06.txt:18:11:58: <AnMaster> alise, you did compile a new nvidia module for the new kernel right?
201 2010-06-06.txt:18:12:03: <alise> AnMaster: yep, nvidia-ck
202 2010-06-06.txt:18:12:37: <alise> "No such device", and dmesg was nvidia telling me to unload some moduels to try it; did so, didn't help.
203 2010-06-06.txt:18:13:07: <alise> AnMaster: some nvidiafb stuff and crap
204 2010-06-19.txt:21:19:56: <alise> kernel uses Brain Fuck Scheduler, TuxOnIce and is stripped of most everything; module support provided as a separate kernel package only for using things like the nvidia drivers
205 2010-07-18.txt:18:00:44: <alise> it's either ati or nvidia. all the same really
206 2010-07-22.txt:18:54:18: <AnMaster> sure I'm stuck with my BIOS being closed source. And various firmwares in different parts of the computer. And sadly, the nvidia driver
207 2010-07-26.txt:14:43:33: <AnMaster> and on one computer, nvidia drivers (need 3D, hope the noveau drivers get that soon!)
208 2010-08-01.txt:17:38:36: <fizzie> Oh, is this the nvidia binary driver?
209 2010-08-01.txt:17:40:01: <fizzie> There's some sort of attempted support that if you pass Option "RandRRotation" to the nvidia driver, it'll try to fake it so that you can set the orientation with it.
210 2010-08-06.txt:18:15:38: <fizzie> On NVIDIA cards, there's the (old) xvmc and (new) vdpau stuff to move even the video stream decoding, and IDCT, and other such stuff, on hardware; but I have no idea how (and if) that's supported on Intel graphics and Linux.
211 2010-08-06.txt:20:45:16: <alise> Under X, how video is finally drawn depends largely on the X window manager in use. With properly installed drivers, and GPU hardware such as supported Intel, ATI, and nVidia chip sets, some window managers, called compositing window managers allow windows to be separately processed and then rendered (or composited). This involves all windows being rendered to separate output buffers in memory first, and later combined to form a complete graphical interfac
212 2010-08-18.txt:11:17:18: <Vorpal> fizzie, btw, do you happen to know if nvidia works with the new 2.6.35 kernel?
213 2010-09-24.txt:19:51:53: <Vorpal> alise, nwn runs perfectly on my desktop with nvidia though
214 2010-09-24.txt:19:52:39: <Sgeo> Is nvidia still better than ATI when it comes to Linux stuff?
215 2010-09-24.txt:20:24:56: <Vorpal> alise, which is still waaay below nvidia or ati :P
216 2010-10-13.txt:05:26:52: <pikhq> Nvidia+Linux is definitely better than ATI+Linux, performance-wise.
217 2010-10-13.txt:06:50:11: <Vorpal> <pikhq> Nvidia+Linux is definitely better than ATI+Linux, performance-wise. <-- last I checked, also stability-wise.
218 2010-10-13.txt:23:16:01: <elliott> "This package provides the oficial NVIDIA graphic driver for
219 2010-10-13.txt:23:16:53: <elliott> "Quentin Garnier has made a loadable kernel module (LKM) version of the NVidia drivers on NetBSD. This release is very preliminary, rough and mostly meant to test the installation procedure. You will need a NetBSD-current system but the code itself should be quite backward compatible with some caveats. For example, you need 'options KVM86' in your kernel config. Known working hardware includes RIVA TNT
220 2010-10-13.txt:23:17:10: <pikhq> Actually, you could probably port it. How Nvidia rolls is that they've got a binary blob that's *OS independent*, and a stub to abstract the kernel.
221 2010-10-17.txt:04:14:54: <elliott> but not like nvidia or ati or intel or anything that needs full X.org
222 2010-10-19.txt:13:46:55: <Vorpal> elliott, requirements for me: rolling release, reasonably up-to-date (so nothing as outdated as, say, debian stable), allows easy tweaking of system without it trying to get in the way, not source-based. And hm probably linux kernel too. Well freebsd can support nvidia drivers iirc so...
223 2010-10-19.txt:13:47:58: <elliott> Vorpal: I, uh, try nouveau. Nvidia's driver *is* an OS-independent binary blob and a kernel interface, so you could port it, but nobody really has recently
224 2010-10-19.txt:13:49:52: <elliott> Vorpal: isn't there another nvidia driver? :/
225 2010-10-19.txt:13:58:28: <Vorpal> elliott, will recheck that when I get back after rebooting, I don't think it works in w3m and atm the nvidia userland/kernel module are out of sync, so can't start X.
226 2010-10-26.txt:01:21:49: <Vorpal> nvidia though
227 2010-11-05.txt:20:32:23: <Vorpal> elliott, well... I found an old version of alpha at a certain bay (and a link to the linux version in a comment), on my desktop it works as long as I set "fast graphics". But that is nvidia and emu10k...
228 2010-11-06.txt:21:43:27: <pikhq> Vorpal: Uh, Nvidia's the only one that is likely to be a pain.
229 2010-11-06.txt:21:45:37: <pikhq> Also, with Ubuntu switching to Wayland I'd imagine Nvidia would port their system to go through KMS and DRM.
230 2010-11-06.txt:21:47:31: <pikhq> Vorpal: Nvidia, to be a pain, just *does their own god-damned bottom layer*.
231 2010-11-06.txt:21:53:46: <Vorpal> elliott, except for actual purposes nvidia still outperforms everyone
232 2010-11-06.txt:21:54:30: <pikhq> And Nvidia, well, they're still assholes.
233 2010-11-07.txt:00:37:54: <pikhq> (Looking at *you*, Nvidia!)
234 2010-11-07.txt:21:45:10: <Vorpal> runs fast on my sempron 3300+ with nvidia geforce 7600 GS (AGP)
235 2010-11-14.txt:21:02:51: <elliott> Phantom_Hoover: Nvidia or ATI? (The answer to your next question is "depends on the phase of the moon".)
236 2010-11-14.txt:21:03:16: <elliott> As I understand it, right now the open-source ATI drivers are better than the open-source Nvidia drivers, and the proprietary Nvidia drivers are the best of all.
237 2010-11-14.txt:21:03:38: <Phantom_Hoover> If it's true, Nvidia; if false, ATI.
238 2010-11-14.txt:21:03:47: <elliott> Phantom_Hoover: Nvidia then.
239 2010-11-25.txt:23:54:25: <elliott> (I'm making it so easy for all those fuckers with nvidia and ati cards. :p)
240 2010-11-28.txt:21:42:05: <coppro> also some nvidia drivers apparently
241 2010-11-28.txt:21:43:12: <elliott> <coppro> also some nvidia drivers apparently
242 2010-11-28.txt:21:43:15: <elliott> coppro: are you on a nvidia card?
243 2010-11-28.txt:21:43:39: <coppro> so fuck nvidia etc.
244 2010-12-17.txt:04:23:16: <elliott> pikhq: I'm sorry, only one of us can have a 1.32 kg, 0.11-0.68 inch high, 13" 1440x900, 2.13 GHz Core 2 Duo with 256 GiB of SSD storage and a Nvidia GeForce 320M GPU. And ~6-7 hours battery life.
245 2010-12-24.txt:21:30:09: <Vorpal> (it generally never told me first, and I blame nvidia when things went shit)
246 2010-12-31.txt:02:05:28: <elliott> Vorpal: No. Nvidia.
247 2010-12-31.txt:02:05:43: <Vorpal> elliott, oh. So integrated nvidia? how strange
248 2011-01-01.txt:20:09:09: <elliott> Vorpal: So if it works well, then it works well on 2.1GHz Core 2 Duo w/ 4 GiB of RAM, good nvidia integrated GPU and 256 GiB SSD. Which is of course very relevant to your situation.
249 2011-01-04.txt:01:58:03: <Vorpal> elliott, nvidia cpus next
250 2011-01-15.txt:03:12:07: <Vorpal> pikhq, should have gotten yourself nvidia or intel :P
251 2011-01-15.txt:22:58:33: <elliott> You know what the most useful thing about the NVIDIA X Server Settings is?
252 2011-01-16.txt:15:59:47: <elliott> pikhq: Kernel modesetting isn't supported by the native nvidia drivers, right?
253 2011-02-17.txt:14:30:00: <ais523_> hmm, does anyone here know if nvcc (the Nvidia C compiler) is purely in-house, or based on one of the other major compilers?
254 2011-03-05.txt:20:58:30: <pikhq> elliott: Besides which, this issue will only really affect Nvidia.
255 2011-03-05.txt:21:05:09: <cheater00> pikhq: have nvidia somehow said they don't support wayland?
256 2011-03-13.txt:16:59:59: <ais523> which I think expands to "NVidia C Compiler"
257 2011-03-17.txt:10:18:48: <Vorpal> I only use the distro kernel because the nvidia X drivers package depends on the nvidia kernel driver package which depends on the kernel package.
258 2011-04-01.txt:18:44:29: <elliott> no word about nvidia
259 2011-04-23.txt:12:26:57: <Vorpal> OpenGL version string: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 270.30
260 2011-05-09.txt:18:13:56: <Vorpal> elliott, I don't know if nvidia or amd/ati is best atm
261 2011-05-09.txt:18:15:10: <olsner> I think nvidia still has better linux support
262 2011-05-23.txt:03:57:23: <elliott_> NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory3
263 2011-05-29.txt:00:33:16: <elliott> As would mbp-nvidia-bl-dkms.
264 2011-05-29.txt:18:42:43: <Vorpal> pikhq, nvidia.ko was something like 9 MB last I looked
265 2011-05-29.txt:18:43:54: <fizzie> 13M /lib/modules/2.6.38-8-generic/updates/dkms/nvidia-current.ko
266 2011-06-30.txt:03:03:43: <Lymee> "if you change the kernel, Nix will ensure that external kernel modules such as the NVIDIA driver will be rebuilt as well"
267 2011-07-22.txt:18:49:28: <Vorpal> ais523, my guess for something like nvidia binary driver would be that it mmaps a range of shared pages with the kernel module... And what the kernel does is hard to know, some DMA thing probably
268 2011-07-22.txt:18:57:22: <Vorpal> ais523, well as long as you don't plan to get nvidia-settings, catalyst-control-center or other similar softwares running :P
269 2011-07-22.txt:18:57:34: <ais523> Vorpal: heh, I think I'll give a miss on nvidia-settings
270 2011-08-04.txt:21:01:29: <Cheery> basicly, if I'd get off from the unproductivity cycle, I'd get on to writing stuff that converts bunch of expressions in a program flow graph into thin amount of assembly language in x86 and nvidia gtx460
271 2011-08-22.txt:20:30:55: <fizzie> (Setting it didn't do anything for me, but that's probably because the version of libGL things here link to is provided by the nvidia binary blob.)
272 2011-08-28.txt:22:22:06: <ais523> (I've been playing more humble bundle games, but haven't found anything particularly inspiring in the latest batch; also, one of the .debs appears to have a dependency on an nvidia library, which is suspect as I don't have an nvidia graphics card)
273 2011-08-28.txt:22:22:43: <ais523> elliott: it wasn't, and besides CUDA only works on nvidia cards
274 2011-09-01.txt:18:00:35: <ais523> although possibly I'll end up using it before long if nvidia continue screwing up the CUDA SDK
275 2011-09-01.txt:18:08:02: <Gregor> http://developer.nvidia.com/opencl
276 2011-09-01.txt:18:08:18: <Gregor> Seems like OpenCL probably supports just about as much as CUDA ... which is to say, NVidia stuff :P
277 2011-09-01.txt:18:26:14: <elliott> "For example NVidia GPUs use scalar processors (with scalar instructions), no vectorization is necessary. On the contrary, ATI features 5d (or 4d) VLIW processors and for these is the vectorization crucial." i;m so confused
278 2011-09-01.txt:18:28:23: <elliott> ais523: out of interest, how are nvidia mucking up cuda sdk?
279 2011-09-03.txt:02:38:50: <elliott> nm: /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libOpenCL.so: no symbols
280 2011-09-03.txt:03:28:34: <elliott> monqy: CUDA, nvidia-only and basically deprecated and probably no nicer
281 2011-09-03.txt:03:29:33: <elliott> On the same day Khronos Group announced the new OpenCL v1.1 specification update (June 14th, 2010), NVIDIA released OpenCL v1.1 pre-release drivers and SDK code samples to all GPU Computing registered developers. Log in or apply for an account to download latest NVIDIA Drivers and Toolkits.
282 2011-09-03.txt:03:39:32: <elliott> CakeProphet: Hey, I'm going to reban you again, because the nvidia code you linked me to uses fucktons of helpers that I can't find the definitions of
283 2011-09-03.txt:08:03:37: <elliott> but some of the nvidia SDK examples are useful
284 2011-09-03.txt:10:10:50: <ais523> there's a slideshow by NVidia somewhere where they did lots and lots of optimisations on an associative fold and watched it get faster and faster
285 2011-09-03.txt:11:14:35: <zid> koth has loop problems, invidiaul has sniping problems
286 2011-09-25.txt:22:21:50: <elliott_> What package are the proprietary nvidia drivers in again
287 2011-09-25.txt:22:22:30: <fizzie> elliott_: 'nvidia-current' or some-such, but there's also that driver manager thing.
288 2011-09-25.txt:22:24:00: <elliott_> And apparently the listed nvidia packages in Software Cetnre don't exist in my repositories.
289 2011-09-25.txt:22:25:18: <elliott_> nvidia-current installs.
290 2011-09-25.txt:22:27:31: <elliott_> OK, let's see if these nvidia drivers work.
291 2011-09-26.txt:12:55:52: <elliott> dvdauthor readom compizconfig-settings-manager nvidia-glx gnome-themes
292 2011-10-13.txt:07:02:38: <fizzie> NVIDIA has that OptiX thing going on, for example; I don't know much more than the name about it, though.
293 2011-10-13.txt:07:08:11: <fizzie> I don't think so. Googling hit a one-hour slidefest about the topic from SIGGRAPH 2011 (by NVIDIA) at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IC2NIogWR4
294 2011-10-13.txt:07:08:57: <fizzie> There's a link to http://developer.nvidia.com/siggraph-2011 which lists all presentations from NVIDIA folks. (Haven't more than glanced at it.)
295 2011-10-28.txt:18:28:54: <Vorpal> elliott, what about binary blobs that depend on certain stuff. Say, df, nwn, or even the amd or nvidia drivers?
296 2011-11-08.txt:18:10:32: -!- tiffany has quit (Quit: restarting in attempt to fix nvidia drivers).
297 2011-11-11.txt:02:24:05: <Gregor> Linux drivers made by the actual company that makes the thing being driven: nvidia GFX, ATI GFX, Intel GFX ... and nothing else.
298 2011-11-12.txt:20:49:32: <Vorpal> elliott, well, nvidia sucks quite a bit nowdays too
299 2011-11-12.txt:20:49:48: <Sgeo|chromcrash> nVidia sucks with Linux now? Boo
300 2011-11-12.txt:20:50:14: <Vorpal> elliott, true. Still the open drivers for radeon are way ahead of the ones for nvidia
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